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''Bill & __ Excellent Adventure'' (1989 film) TEDS
''ER'' extras EMTS
''My bad!'' OOPS
''Ni-i-ice!'' AAH
''Pirates of Penzance'' heroine MABEL
''The Da Vinci Code'' author Brown DAN
''__ Misérables'' LES
'60s campus activist grp. SDS
Accommodates, as an artist SITSFOR
Affectionate nickname DEARIE
Ancient Peruvian INCA
Animated ogre SHREK
Apple topper STEM
Astronaut insignia NASA
Atmospheric prefix AERI
Author Silverstein SHEL
Before, of yore ERE
Biblical queendom SHEBA
Big popcorn containers TUBS
Blueprint DIAGRAM
Bolshoi offering RUSSIANBALLET
Book-jacket blurbs BIOS
Breakfast-buffet selection CANADIANBACON
Bring lunch from home BROWNBAGIT
Bring under control TAME
Chapter of history ERA
Clear, as a tape ERASE
Continue CARRYON
Corn holder CAN
Cornerstone abbr. ESTAB
Country singer Lovett LYLE
Course necessities TEES
Cuernavaca coin PESO
Cultivate DEVELOP
Dallas hoopster MAV
Decorative material ART
Diamond theft STOLENBASE
Directional suffix ERN
Disadvantaged NEEDY
Dog star LASSIE
Dog-show org. AKC
Doing something BUSY
Don't allow to lapse RENEW
Door opener PASSKEY
Easter costume BUNNY
Ecological agcy. EPA
Edible bulb ONION
Essential acids AMINOS
Even-__ STEVEN
Family member SIS
Feeling ho-hum BORED
Feminizing finish ENNE
First name in fashion YVES
Flag sound FLAP
Fund-raising event RAFFLE
Furthermore BESIDES
Grammy-winning soprano KATHLEENBATTLE
Grew serious SOBERED
Hawkeye IOWAN
Hebrides island SKYE
Hidden theme of the puzzle NBA
High point PEAK
High point APEX
Highwaymen BANDITS
Hypnotist's concern EYES
Ideal for sledding SNOWY
Ill temper BILE
Infamous emperor NERO
Informal reproach TSK
Iran, formerly PERSIA
Iron worker's union WELD
It means ''beyond'' ULTRA
It's nothing in Nogales NADA
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Jazz singer Laine CLEO
Kimono cousin CAFTAN
Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee OBESE
Literary family name BRONTE
Little legume PEA
Loch monster's nickname NESSIE
Lots of land ACRES
Mag execs. EDS
Manitoba Indians CREES
Marquand sleuth MRMOTO
Medium work SEANCE
Military truant AWOL
Mineral spring SPA
Monte Carlo miss: Abbr. MLLE
Nasdaq competitor NYSE
NFLers honor ALLPRO
Not made up REAL
Opposite of ecto- ENDO
Out for the evening, perhaps ONADATE
Pantry pest ANT
Participating INIT
Pedal pushers BIKERS
Plum relative SLOE
Poetic nights EENS
Point in the right direction ORIENT
Popeye's greeting AHOY
Precursor to revolution UNREST
Prefix for centric ETHNO
Prefix for logical THEO
Pres. Eisenhower's alma mater USMA
Raises UPS
Recruit ENROL
Reduce LESSEN
Reunion attendee AUNT
Roughly AROUND
Rumble MELEE
Select at random DRAW
Set length of time TERM
Ship's petty officer, familiarly BOSN
Sidewalk-stand offerings ADES
Silent acknowledgment WAVE
Simplify EASE
Smallest-city NFLer GREENBAYPACKER
Snake charmers' snakes COBRAS
Some birdcalls CAWS
Some Guinness Book listings FIRSTS
Some NCOs SGTS
Some SWAT team members SNIPERS
Sound of a break-in? AHEM
Spring locales OASES
Stadium snack NACHOS
The highest degree NTH
They're pressed for cash ATMS
They're unrefined ORES
Things to build on SITES
This, that, or the other ANY
Throng MOB
Through OVER
Tic-tac-toe players XSANDOS
Told it like it wasn't LIED
Totally baffled ATALOSS
Tread-bare BALD
Treater's phrase ONME
Trim, as a photo CROP
UFO pilots ETS
Understandings KENS
Versatile musician ONEMANBAND
Wallop BOP
Was almost depleted RANLOW
Water collector RAINBARREL
What ''you'' used to be THEE
When shadows are shortest ATNOON
Yodeler's range ALPS